"Primary Source Investigations" Model Activity - Workshop Two

Understanding Goal

Primary sources are both like a puzzle and a puzzle piece

Directions

Read and interpret primary sources, using differentiated analysis tools, in multiple media formats, connected to a range of curricular subjects.

1. Choose an primary source investigation based on your interests in the media format, topic, or analysis tool.
2. Use the direction sheet and analysis tool provided to interpret the primary sources to answer the investigative question:
   • Download Activities Files (1 Zip file containing Microsoft Word Documents)
3. Reflect on how this activity might be used with students.
4. Use the "How Can I Find More?" documents to locate primary sources related to current instruction.

Best Instructional Practices

• Differentiated Instruction
• Literacy Instruction
  • Information Literacy
  • Reading Comprehension
• Teaching for Understanding
• Technology Integration

View New Investigations Chart

Media Format	Topic	Analysis Tool
Political Cartoons   Additional Resources	1. School Desegregation	Evaluate Design Elements Examine Persuasion Techniques
	2. Women’s Suffrage
	2a. Math
Multimedia   Additional Resources	3. World War One Source Collection - World War I	Use a Scan, Examine, Analyze, Compare chart Novice SEAC Chart VENN Diagram SEAC Chart (Advanced)
	3. Industrialization Source Collection - Industrialization LibraryQuest
	3. Natural Disasters Source Collection - Nature's Fury
	3. Patriotic Music – sounds recordings Source Collection - I hear America Singing (patriotic music)
	3. Sports and Dance Source Collections - Baseball Dance Manuals Katherine Dunham Collection (dance)
	3. Advertisements – film and video Source Collection - Fifty Years of Coca Cola Advertisements
	3. Veteran’s History (WWI, WWII, Korean, Vietnam and Persian Gulf) Source Collection - Veteran's History Project, What is Courage?
	3. Holidays Source Collection - Looking Into Holidays Past
	3. Household Technology Source Collection - The History of Household Technology
	4. Seasons Source Collection - Summertime Leisure	Identify the season of a silent film
	4a. Fractions and Music
Images   Additional Resources	5. Math - proportional thinking	Estimate and calculate proportions
	6. Math - mathematical terms	Identify evidence – Eye Spy
	7. Math - Washington Monument	Measure and calculate
	8. Science - tornados, Fujita scale	Identify evidence
	9. Civil War Photographs	Subjective and objective observations
	10. Depression and Migrant workers	Arranging photos in a story
	11. City Change Over Time - panoramic photographs	Observe, infer, question
	12. Railroads - Panoramic Photographs	Observe, infer, question
	13. Native Americans - Panoramic Photographs	Observe, infer, question
	14. Oil paintings on a variety of topics	Entry points – multiple intelligences
Documents   Additional Resources	15. Westward Migration-photos and first-hand accounts	Match narratives with pictures
	16. Westward Migration - Homestead Act	Use SCIM – C graphic organizer Overview of SCIM - C Strategy
	16. Patriotic Music – Star Spangled Banner
	17. Environmental Diversity - Birds
	17. Weather - Snow
	17. Scientific Method - Bell’s notebooks
	18. Westward Migration - Letter	Read twice with guiding questions
	18. Freedom of Speech - Letter
	18. Scientific Experimentation - Letter
	18. Yorktown Surrender - Letter
	19. Westward Migration - Diary	“Crack the Code” tips
	20. Writing Process - Poem	Record revisions in a poet’s work
	20a. Charts in Math Class
Maps   Additional Resources	21. Exploration	"Thinking About Maps" Graphic Organizer Map Analysis National Archives Analysis
	22. Sedimentary Rocks
	23. Virginia History
	24. Math with a Civil War Map